TRACHEA. 123 



strongly below cell ; medial black streaks on costa and inner 

 margin, with some olive-fulvous scales below the former and 

 between cell and latter; a white spot in end of cell ringed with 

 black and connected by a short strealv with the black discoidal bar, 

 a black patch above it on costa; a postmedial black point on costa; 

 a broad oblique black subterminal band, with white point at costa, 

 from costa to vein 6, and an oblique band from submedian fold to 

 tornus with white streak on its upper edge and the area between 

 it and the band from costa broadly suffused with fuscous edged with 

 black and white scales ; some diffused fuscous spots on termen 

 towards apex and a streak in submedian fold ; a terminal series o£ 

 black striae ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with black except at base ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white irrorated with fuscous, a blackish spot on middle of costa, 

 rather diffused sinuous postmedial line, and traces of subterminal 

 band. 



Hob. Natal, Durban {Lelgli), 1 $ type. Exp. 26 millim. 



2871. Trachea melanobasis. (Plate CX. fig. 31.) 

 Euplexia melanohasis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 285 (1902). 



$ . Head and thorax white ; palpi except at tips, antennae, base 

 and tips of patagia and sides of metathorax black ; tegulfe rufous 

 with some white in centres ; legs black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white irrorated with dark brown and dorsally banded 

 with black. Fore wing with the basal area black, with white 

 patch with waved outer edge on base of costal area and rufous spot 

 on it at costa and streak below cell, the edge of the black area 

 nearly straight from costa to vein 1 where it is retracted, then erect 

 to inner margin, followed by a white band and irroration shading 

 into the leaden grey terminal area ; claviform and orbicular absent; 

 renifol-m represented by a quadrate black patch with oblique white 

 mark near its inner edge, and with a black bar from it to costa ; 

 postmedial line white, bent outwards below costa, obsolete between 

 veins 7 and 2, then angled inwards in submedian fold and rather 

 oblique to inner margin, where it is followed by a large rather 

 triangular black patch extending to tornus ; the costa spotted black 

 and white towards apex, with a broad rather oblique black sub- 

 terminal bar from costa to vein 7 ; a subterminal black spot with 

 white point on its inner edge above vein 5 ; traces of the sub- 

 terminal line between veins 5 and 2 with slight olive shading 

 beyond it ; some olive shading below vein '2. before and beyond the 

 postmedial line; a slight terminal dark line; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and white. Hind wing fuscous black, the cilia chequered 

 with white at middle ; the underside white irrrorated with black, 

 the costal area suffused with black, a discoidal spot and diffused 

 postmedial line incurved below vein 4. 



Hah, jSTatal, Mooi R., 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



